SpaceX launches Starfall reentry capsule on first demonstration mission
Starfall differs from Cargo Dragon by focusing specifically on cargo return, offering a potentially faster and more cost-effective…
New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
Astronomers map a magnetic “skeleton” funneling gas into a stellar nursery | MIT News
Stars form when vast clouds of cold gas in space collapse under their own gravity. But not all…
Jonathan McDowell has been tracking every object in orbit since 1989 — a one-person catalog that started as a weekly email newsletter and became the source governments and newsrooms cite when they need to know how many Starlink satellites are actually up there
Jonathan McDowell has been keeping a detailed running tally of what humans have put in orbit, and his…
NASA’s Webb just traced a mysterious interstellar comet’s ancient origins
When a comet from beyond our solar system streaks past the Sun, astronomers know they’re witnessing something extraordinary.…
SpaceX secures $6.3bn compute capacity deal from AI startup Reflection
SpaceX has secured another cloud computing contract for its Colossus data center infrastructure. The latest agreement has been…
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’
image: A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By…
UAE astronauts prepare for Moon by training in New Mexico
Astronauts Sultan Al Neyadi and Hazza Al Mansouri have completed Nasa‘s geology training in the US state of…
OHB raises funding for expansion, acquisitions
WASHINGTON — German space company OHB will raise about half a billion euros through a stock sale to…
Inertial migration of spherical particle in shear flow of shear-thinning fluids | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
3.1. Effect of Carreau number, viscosity ratio and power-law index We begin by examining the influence of shear…
Pregnant Endangered Fin Whale Found Dead On Cruise Ship Bow In Alaska
Image for representation purposes only A pregnant fin whale, an endangered species, was found dead on the bow…
Playing the Moon Game – NASA Science
In preparing to visit the Moon’s surface, soon-to-be lunar explorers in NASA’s Apollo program first ventured into a…